View single post by Robert

Posted: Fri Jan 22nd, 2016 05:20

Joined:	Mon Apr 2nd, 2012
Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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Thanks Judith, Just a bit torn as to how dark to make it, given how bright the original exposures are it's difficult to make it look like a dark night, yet still show the scene.

Exposure adjustments need to be made before the images are stacked because StarStax only outputs in JPEG, which limits options and quality for final adjustments. After the stacking there is quite a bit of tidying up to do, for some reason the star trails appear to be in front of the tree branches so they need clone work and some of the star trails have gaps which need filling manually, there are also some artefact bright pixels which need cloning out.

I may use Photoshop for my next attempt... Another clamber up Photoshops learning curve!

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Robert.